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Corp members planting trees, Photograph Courtesy of Hands On Denver and Denver Parks & RecreationUpon the 75th Anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources expanded the Maryland Conservation Corps (MCC) to include a new initiative called the Maryland Civic Justice Corps (CJC). The CJC works in partnership with the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services and other youth-based urban organizations to provide conservation service opportunities for youth in Maryland State Parks.

The CJC is a unique summer program where you’ll be part of a team working to conserve and restore Maryland State Parks. Discover Maryland’s natural resources and gain the skills to protect them. Learn how to build bridges and trails, and how to make a rain barrel!

Corps members learning how to paddle canoesYou will gain skills that will prepare you for many career opportunities and a lifetime of healthy outdoor recreation and interaction with nature.

Don’t worry, it’s not all work, there’s plenty of time for fun outdoors! Have you ever wanted to walk on a tight rope, or scale a climbing wall? How about hold a Great Horned Owl or a Corn Snake? Do it all this summer with the Maryland Civic Justice Corps!

In the News

Governor Martin O’Malley Delivers Commencement Address
at First Maryland Civic Justice Corps Graduation

Governor O'Malley Expands Maryland Conservation Corps
New Civic Justice Corps Offers Meaningful Summer Conservation Work to At-risk Youth

O'Malley not out of element
Candus Thomson On the Outdoors, Baltimore Sun, April 27, 2008

Photograph of members at work,
Courtesy of Hands On Denver
and Denver Parks & Recreation


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Last updated on August 10, 2009

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